Dinner Party To Aid Kemerer Museum

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who have signed up for the "Kemerer Dinner Party," a first-time benefit event to be conducted Saturday by the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts of Bethlehem.

Owners of 10 homes will be hosts to 100 dinner guests for the evening's event planned for the benefit of the museum's education program.

Guests will receive their dinner assignments and meet their host and hostess during cocktails at 6:30 p.m. at the museum.

The hosts and hostesses will be Dr. and Mrs. Robert Biggs at the home of Dr. and Mrs. William Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. Davis Dunbar, Mrs. W. Deming Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. John Mendenhall, Mrs. Peter Prichett, Ralph Schwarz, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sleeman, Nancy A. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Trautlein and Suzanne and Robert Virgilio, proprietors of The Bethlehem Inn.

In each home, dinner will be catered by Lou Alba of QSV and Marie Harrington and Kim Golden-Benner, owners of "In Good Taste." The menu will start with angel hair consomme, followed by garden salad and raspberry vinaigrette. A seasonal fruit sorbet will precede the boneless breast of capon with champagne sauce of shittake mushrooms, which will be garnished with a bouquetiere of spring vegetables. Homemade dinner breads will be offered.

After dinner, guests will return to the museum for a dessert buffet prepared by the "Friends of Kemerer," a group of museum volunteers. Included will be chocolate mousse cheesecake and a lemon charlotte russe.

Mrs. John Bealer, vice president of the museum's board of trustees, says the dinner party will be elegant and entertaining. "We are asking people to support the education the museum does. Monies raised will help buy reproduction objects to take into the classroom. Children love to touch pretty things, such as a jacquard coverlet, and can learn more from that tactile experience than a dry lecture."

And, according to Executive Director Gerald R. Bastoni, "The image of the hushed and hallowed halls of a static museum is obsolete. We want a museum visit to be a happy, interactive experience. A child who enjoys his museum visits will become a lifelong museum lover."